Author: Roland Hughes

Roland Hughes is the president of Logikal Solutions, a business applications consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS platforms and Qt on Linux. Hughes serves as a lead consultant with over two decades of experience using computers and operating systems. With a degree in Computer Information Systems, the author's experience is focused on systems across a variety of diverse industries including heavy equipment manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, stock exchanges, tax accounting, and hardware value-added resellers, to name a few. Working throughout these industries has strengthened the author's unique skill set and given him a broad perspective on the role and value of technology in industry.

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Infinite Exposure – Pt. 1

Preface This book is a work of fiction. It uses many historical events, news articles, and company names to build a time line necessary for projection forward. Without using many of these actual names and quotes, it would be difficult to build the sense of realism that gives credibility to…

Roland HughesMarch 5, 2018February 9, 2021

Experience Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

No – Automatic Headlight Setting Does Not Work in Fog

I realize it will be a long time before this post is shown given scheduling concerns, but I really needed to get this off my chest. No, your “automatic” headlights don’t come on in fog, especially a bright fog. During the second week of January 2018, Illinois went from wind…

Roland HughesFebruary 25, 2018January 11, 2018

Experience For the Bunker Russian Dolls Society Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

The fight for Net Neutrality

Rather than cut and paste, I’ll share this with a link.

Roland HughesFebruary 22, 2018

Experience Society Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Winter isn’t coming . . . when you work for a publisher

I have always said, after having put out my first two books via a traditional publisher that I would never do it again. While George may be richer than I, he is learning what it is like to have a hating fan base. Many years ago, when LinkedIn had the…

Roland HughesFebruary 21, 2018February 16, 2018

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Sometimes you want to be young for the right reasons

On Saturday we had perfect snowball making snow. [metaslider id=2711] It was enough to make you want to be 10 years old again. Immune to the cold with a fort to build, pelting anyone who happened past. For a brief moment it makes you wonder if going through the “awkward…

Roland HughesFebruary 19, 2018

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An Open Letter to Elon Musk

Dear Mr. Musk, You don’t know me from Adam. Even if you visit the site for my geek books you pretty much could be ignoring me, but I hope you won’t. I’m writing to you because of all the high flying vulture capital backed people in the press, you are…

Roland HughesFebruary 18, 2018February 10, 2018

Experience Finance Society Thank You Sir May I Have Another

The Malignant Tumor Grows in Size – Pt. 2

While it may seem disingenuous to be writing a blog post about the evils of spending too much time online and how Amazon will end the human race, take a good look at this site. We advertise the books we wrote. All of us together put out less than 5 books…

Roland HughesFebruary 16, 2018February 10, 2018